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Teddy Cole Foundation for Horses Inc at a glance

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Teddy Cole Foundation for Horses Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$281k
Granted FY2025still arriving
8
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$134k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Animals$1.4MHuman Services$442kHealth$35kRecreation & Sports$5k
02FY2025 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k3 grants · $12k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $71k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $198k
$17,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$1.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
United Pegasus Foundation$134,400
GEVA Incorporated$63,200
Horse Harbor Foundation$41,600
Otro Mas$17,000
Square Peg Foundation$12,000
Ride Above Disability Therapeutic R$6,000
Live and Let Live Farm Inc$6,000
Permanently Disabled Jockey Fund In$350
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY21–21, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Black Dawg Farm and Sanctuary: $10k → 9%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.8M · 11 repeat orgs$21k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +55% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

11 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
4

Total granted

$1.8M
$21k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+55%
0%

Still filing today

64%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
AnimalsHealthHuman ServicesOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • UP
    UNITED PEGASUS FOUNDATION
    9× · 2017–2025 · $788k · revenue +78%
  • HH
    HORSE HARBOR FOUNDATION
    9× · 2017–2025 · $257k · revenue +62%
  • SP
    SQUARE PEG FOUNDATION
    9× · 2017–2025 · $104k · revenue +73%

Funded once

  • BD
    BLACK DAWG FARM AND SANCTUARY
    one grant, 2021 · $10k
  • SC
    Southern California Thoroughbred Re
    one grant, 2017 · $5k
  • SH
    SAVING HORSES INC
    one grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue -16%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
New Hope Farm Inc

Rescue and sanctuary for horses, donkeys, and mules.

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2
Thomas Foundation Second Chance Horse Rescue
Animals
3
Epona Equine Rescue & Rehab
Animals
4
Tuckers Place Equine Sanctuary

501c3 horse rescue

Animals
5
Amador County Equine Sanctuary - Rescue Rehab & Retirement

The Amador County Equine Sanctuary is dedicated to rescuing and re-homing horses in need through adoption and re-homing programs designed to offer adoptable equine an opportunity for a second career and life-long safe sanctuary to…

Animals
6
Red Bucket Equine Rescue
Animals
7
All Things Hooved Animal Rescue

Farm animal rescue and rehabilitation

Animals
8
United States Equine Rescue League

Save Protect and Rehabilitate Equines

Animals
9
Hooves of My Heart Equine Rescue Ltd
Animals
10
2nd Chance Ranch and Rescue

Sanctuary for abused or abandoned animals

Animals
11
Equine Harmony Rescue and Rehab

Rescue, rehabilitation, and responsible placement of horses, mules, and donkeys.

Animals
12
Solitude Farm Morgan Horse Rescue
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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Saving Horses Inc; the most unlike its peers is United Pegasus Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

10 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 10 of the 15 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/10
Grantees still filing
7/10
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UNITED PEGASUS FOUNDATION: $788,400 · AnimalsUNITED PEGASUS FOUNDATIONHORSE HARBOR FOUNDATION: $256,600 · AnimalsHORSE HARBOR FOUNDATIONOTRA-MAS INC: $95,250 · AnimalsOTRA-MAS INCLIVE AND LET LIVE FARM INC: $52,000 · Animals+4 more: $26,400 · AnimalsGEVA Incorporated: $441,700 · OtherGEVA IncorporatedRide Above Disability Therapeutic R: $33,865 · OtherRide Above Disability Therapeut…Old Friends Thoroughbred Rescue: $25,000 · Other+2 more: $5,700 · OtherSQUARE PEG FOUNDATION: $104,000 · HealthBLACK DAWG FARM AND SANCTUARY: $10,000 · Human Services
Animals$1,218,650Other$506,265Health$104,000Human Services$10,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUNITED PEGASUS FOUNDATION: $788,400 over 9y, 22% of budgetHORSE HARBOR FOUNDATION: $256,600 over 9y, 25% of budgetSQUARE PEG FOUNDATION: $104,000 over 9y, 1.4% of budgetOTRA-MAS INC: $95,250 over 9y, 13% of budgetLIVE AND LET LIVE FARM INC: $52,000 over 9y, 0.8% of budgetCALIFORNIA RETIREMENT MANAGEMENT ACCOUNT: $13,400 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetBLACK DAWG FARM AND SANCTUARY: $10,000 over 1y, 5.8% of budgetTHOROUGHBRED RETIREMENT FOUNDATION INC: $7,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSAVING HORSES INC: $5,000 over 1y, 4.2% of budgetMAUI HUMANE SOCIETY: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

  • Who funds UNITED PEGASUS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds HORSE HARBOR FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds SQUARE PEG FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds OTRA-MAS INC ↗
  • Who funds LIVE AND LET LIVE FARM INC ↗
  • Who funds CALIFORNIA RETIREMENT MANAGEMENT ACCOUNT ↗
  • Who funds BLACK DAWG FARM AND SANCTUARY ↗
  • Who funds THOROUGHBRED RETIREMENT FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds SAVING HORSES INC ↗
  • Who funds MAUI HUMANE SOCIETY ↗

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Fidelity Investments …Donor Advised Charita…Amazonsmile Foundation
Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift FundMA5× affinity6 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Teddy Cole Foundation for Horses Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Teddy Cole Foundation for Horses Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%2%6%14%25%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Teddy Cole Foundation for Horses Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Teddy Cole Foundation for Horses Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 15 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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